A letter to Desmond Lardner-Burke

From the Zimbabwe Times:

Dear Mr Lardner-Burke,

You used to be Minister of Law and Order, even when there was little law and order to talk about in Rhodesia. You arrested us and imprisoned our leaders. But now we show you how generous our new democracy is; we still include your name on the voters’ roll even when we know you died 30 years ago.

While you denied us the vote, we shall insist on exhuming your remains so that you can come back from South Africa to witness how in our new democracy, even the dead and the absent are granted the vote.

Yours democratically,

Chenjerai Hove,

In the Diaspora